TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities is a major new initiative that seeks to build on this heritage and to stimulate and support research that transcends disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Here we feature some of the networks and programmes, as well as recordings of events, and offer insights into the research that they make possible.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Jok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum?	Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018.	Jok Madut Jok	15 February, 2019
Kwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum?	Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018.	Kwame Dawes	15 February, 2019
Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime	A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton and Professor Robert Young (chair).	Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Ben Morgan, Richard Drayton, Robert Young	14 February, 2019
Anil Ramdas: Hope and Despair in Dutch Postcolonial Literature	An insight into prize-winning Dutch Surinamese columnist, correspondent, essayist, journalist, and TV and radio host, Anil Ramdas.	Karin Amatmoekrim	4 February, 2019
Ibsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of a World Drama: A Book At Lunchtime	Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century.	Narve Fulsas, Tore Rem, Peter McDonald, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Julia Mannherz	21 January, 2019
The Heterarchical Director - A Model of Authorship for the Twenty-First Century	The keynote talk for 'Collaboration in Theatre symposium' at the University of Oxford, 19 October 2018.	Duška Radosavljević	18 December, 2018
Smart People Work Everywhere - using your research skills outside academia	A panel discuss using your research degree outside academia.	Carole Souter, Philip Bullock, Kate Williams, Mark Byford, Michael Pye	18 December, 2018
Making Oscar Wilde	A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr Sos Eltis (Brasenose, Oxford), Dr Charles Foster (Green Templeton, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson, Oxford).	Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Charles Foster, Dame Hermione Lee	14 December, 2018
Forward with Classics	A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Dr Mai Musie, Dr Peter Jones (Co-founder, Classics for All), Dr Alex Pryce (Head of Student Recruitment, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Fiona Macintosh (St Hilda's Oxford).	Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Mai Musié, Peter Jones, Alex Pryce, Fiona Macintosh	14 December, 2018
Remembering the Jagiellonians	A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Professor Julia Mannherz (Oriel, Oxford) Professor Hannah Skoda (St John’s, Oxford) Chaired by Professor Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford).	Natalia Nowakowska, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Katherine Lebow	14 December, 2018
Reading Beyond the Code	A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director).	Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan, Robyn Carston, Philip Bullock	14 December, 2018
Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 2	A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018.	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young	26 July, 2018
Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 1	A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018.	Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young	18 July, 2018
Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media	Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study.	Lion König, Polly O'hanlon, Sundas Ali, Peter Frankopan	13 July, 2018
Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender	Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak Prize 2018), in conversation with Dr Rebecca Surender (Pro Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Diversity, University of Oxford).	Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Surender	28 June, 2018
Lost in Print? Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Reggae Music Archive	Louisa Layne investigates the reggae music archive, exploring music and poetry through Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub club.	Louisa Layne	13 June, 2018
Lost and Found: Till Damaskus III	Travel back with Leah Broad to 1926 and hear recently found music by Swedish composter Ture Rangstrom, composed for a Strindberg play.	Leah Broad	13 June, 2018
The Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI	Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory.	Dan Holloway	13 June, 2018
A Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100	An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100.	Sally Shuttleworth	13 June, 2018
Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity	Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity	Philip Bullock, Antonia Fitzpatrick, Cecilia Trifogli, William Wood, Emily Corran	12 June, 2018
Artist Talk: Made in Imagination	Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive.	Anne Griffiths	6 June, 2018
Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific	Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II.	Evan Matsuyama	6 June, 2018
Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store	Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects.	Andrew Hughes	6 June, 2018
What made a Jewish country home Jewish?	Leora Auslander (University of Chicago) gives the keynote talk for the JCH conference.	Leora Auslander	23 May, 2018
Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house	Jane Stevenson (University of Oxford) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth panel; Building New.	Jane Stevenson	23 May, 2018
Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house	Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy (Université gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth session; Building New.	Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy	23 May, 2018
Renaissance as locus: Bakst and the imaginary chateau in the Sleeping Beauty panels	Olga Medvedkova (CNRS) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection.	Olga Medvedkova	23 May, 2018
The Sterns, the Singers and Cross-Cultural Exchanges	Tom Stammers (University of Durham) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection.	Tom Stammers	23 May, 2018
In Walpole’s footsteps - Braham and Stern at Strawberry Hill	Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House) and Nino Strachey (National Trust) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection.	Silvia Davoli	23 May, 2018
Schloss Freienwalde: a Jewish restoration of a Prussian legacy	Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam/ Humboldt University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House.	Martin Sabrow	23 May, 2018
Disraeli at Hughenden - A Fish out of Water?	Todd Endelman (University of Michigan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House.	Todd Endelman	23 May, 2018
Sommerfrische, Connoisseurship, Scandal and the Temporary in the Jewish Country House in Austria: Baron Nathaniel Rothschild’s castle in Reichenau and Dr. Josef Kranz’ Villa Raach	Mimi Schmidt (Jindal Global University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux.	Mimi Schmidt	23 May, 2018
Torre Alfina: A Cahen d’Anvers Manor in Italy	Alice Legé (University of Amiens/University of Milan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux.	Alice Lege	23 May, 2018
Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925: a Rothschild Family Villa	Diana Davis gives a talk for the JCH conference's second panel, Villas and Chateaux.	Diana Davis	23 May, 2018
Property and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Provincial Austria	Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first conference The Lure of the Land.	Lisa Silverman	23 May, 2018
Places, Symbols and Images of an Elite: the Country Houses of the Italian Jewish Nobility	Paolo Pellegrini (Scuola di Archivistica, Paelografica e Diplomatica dell'Archivio di Stato di Perugia) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first session; The Lure of the Land.	Paolo Pellegrini	23 May, 2018
Creolizing Country Homes and the Dutch Jewish Pastoral	Laura Leibmann (Reed College) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first panel, The Lure of the Land.	Laura Leibmann	23 May, 2018
Jewish Country Houses Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks	Abigail Green (Oxford) introduces the conference, held in the Radcliffe Humanities Building on 5th March 2018.	Abigail Green	23 May, 2018
Art and Emergency	Book at Lunchtime, Art and Emergency	Emilia Terracciano, Partha Mitter, Lion König, Naiza Khan	22 May, 2018
In search of the Phoenicians	Book at Lunchtime, In search of the Phoenicians	Josephine Quinn, Hindy Najman, Stephanie Dalley, John Watts	10 May, 2018
Photography and Tibet	Author, Clare Harris, talks about her book on photography in Tibet - a place that has for centuries been a source of fascination for outsiders and a captivating yet troublesome subject for photographers.	Clare Harris, Thupten Kelsang, Elizabeth Edwards, Geraldine Johnson	5 April, 2018
A Celebration of the Centenary of the Birth of Olive Gibbs	100 years since the Representation of the People Act, the act which gave women the vote.	Susanna Pressel, Liz Woolley, Bruce Kent, Simon Gibbs, Christine Simm	26 February, 2018
Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past and the Present	An expert panel discusses the phenomenon of ethnicisation of religious identifications focussing especially on the nexus of religious, ethnic and national identifications in colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial settings from Ireland to South Asia.	Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, Faisal Devji, Peter Leary, Ilya Afanasyev	22 February, 2018
Valuing Women With Disabilities	Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised?	Marie Tidball, Helen Brookman, Julie Jaye Charles	21 February, 2018
James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film	Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film	Katherine Morris, Ulrika Maude, Jeri Johnson, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, Philip Bullock	16 February, 2018
A History of Algeria	James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country	James McDougal, Eugene Rogan, Laleh Khalili, Robert Gildea, Philip Bullock	25 January, 2018
Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions	Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation	undefined	24 January, 2018
Becoming / Unbecoming	With comics artist Una	Una	18 December, 2017
Unlocking the Church	Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church	William Whyte, Dan Hicks, Julia Smith, Mark Chapman	11 December, 2017
Late Victorian into Modern	Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern	Laura Marcus, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Michael Bentley, Charlotte Jones, Philip Bullock	8 December, 2017

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